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NGC2996

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:46:30.2
Declination: -21:34:16
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, * 20 f 1'
Sub-type: S0-a

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2996.  JH's RA is well off and the star an arcminute following is 9th
magnitude, not 20th as noted in CGH.  An interesting pair of errors ...

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2996

17.5" (4/1/00): fairly faint, fairly small, round, 40" diameter.  Gradually increases to a brighter core and occasional faint stellar nucleus.  View hampered somewhat by a mag 10.5 star just 1.1' NE of center.